[poppler] Help building popper on windows system

[Adrian Johnson]

The easiest way to create a windows build is to cross compile on Linux
using mingw. Instructions are in the INSTALL file. You just have to
cross compile the dependencies as well.

On 22/10/17 02:53, Mat D wrote:
> I Poppler community ,
> 
> I am a French guy working on an open-source Node.js project that
> use poppler .
> 
> First I really thanks you all for your very good work on poppler.
> 
> My team and I had created a node.js add ons (it’s in c++) that use
> your poppler lib, we only need poppler-cpp because we only extract
> metadata & text from PDF.
> 
> Our module are succefully built for Linux and MacOSX (for Mac We only
> needed to say our module to get iconv library more), now we want to do a
> great job and let the possibility for a guy under windows to use it too.
> So we need to build poppler for windows via node-gyp (We cannot use
> cmake to do it unfortunetly).
> 
> I passed days on it to find what poppler need and at this moment I am
> nearly able to build it, I am just confuse about iconv and sys/time.h
> files that are required by poppler-cpp and I did not found what are the
> defines to tell poppler to compile in win32 mod.
> 
> So could anyone tell my what defines/Variables are needed to
> build poppler-cpp on windows ?
> 
> We only want ou module to extract metadata & text from the pdf so I
> think a lot of library/source are unnecessary .
> 
> Our git repo is here: http://github.com/istex/popplonode
> 
> You could check what defined/variables we already set in this example:
> 
> https://github.com/istex/popplonode/blob/master/lib/poppler.gyp
> <https://pastebin.com/HTqQ2P8x>
> 
> If anyone could help me :)
> 
> Thanks by advance poppler team; and sorry for my bad english :)
> 
> 
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